Jarrett Fuller

Notes from the studio about design, photography, books, and culture by Jarrett Fuller. RSS feed

08/19/2026

Denver Art Museum

Visiting the Gio Ponti and Daniel Libeskind-designed Denver Art Museum

07/24/2026

New Summer Playlist: Like a Spark

Some songs that try to capture the long days of summer.

07/14/2026

Back to Film

I’ve spent the last few months shooting on film for the first time in 20 years.

07/10/2026

Rewatching Gary Hustwit’s Design Trilogy in 2026

These films shaped my introduction to the design industry. What is it like watching them now?

07/07/2026

Calder Gardens

A visit to the recently opened Calder Gardens, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, with gardens by Piet Oudolf.

05/28/2026

Self Portrait as a Coffee-Pot is a Brilliant Defense of Art-Making

The nine-part series from South African artist William Kentridge is the best look inside the creative process

05/20/2026

My New Book: Graphic Designers After Graphic Design

I have a new book coming out from Princeton Architectural Press this fall!

05/02/2026

A Secret, Invisible Grid

From Larissa Pham’s delightful new novel, Discipline:

He told me he was a graphic designer. I didn’t know what that meant, so I asked him, and he said it was about seeing the understructure of how people saw the world. There was a secret, invisible grid that lay beneath everything, a rhyme scheme that encompassed plants and animals, cities and cars; his job was to align shapes to it, to make things look the way they should, and to do it so elegantly that no one noticed he had moved anything at all.

03/16/2026

Building my own bookmarking software

With the help of Claude Code, I finally have the bookmarking app I've always wanted.

03/12/2026

Designed Films

What makes a film designerly?

01/07/2026

Movies Watched, 2025

A list of every movie I watched last year.

01/06/2026

Books Read, 2025

A list of every book I read last year.

01/05/2026

2025 Year in Review

A look back on my work from 2025.

12/19/2025

Favorite Essays of 2025

Another year of good reading. Here are a few favorite texts from 2025.

12/17/2025

Favorite Albums of 2025

An accounting of the music that resonated with me this year.

12/16/2025

One cannot step in the same river twice

A decade’s worth of photos of the same car.

11/15/2025

Cincinnati Architecture

A quick architectural tour of Cincinnati.

10/13/2025

My speculative conversation with George Nelson

Can AI help me interview designers from the past?

09/01/2025

An essay about AI that isn’t really about AI

My latest essay for Fast Company untangles my thoughts about graphic design and AI.

07/29/2025

‘It’s love, Mr. Stoner.’

A passage from John Williams's classic novel, Stoner.